Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Faculty Information Adviser:
Michael Veitch

email : LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

Information Skills Adviser for student enquiries:
Katherine Dike 020 7815 6605
email: LLResbe@lsbu.ac.uk

E-resources

Journals databases (for journal articles, conference proceedings etc.)

(IEL Online) IEEE Xplore Digital Library [electronic resource].
Access to the full text of IEEE and IEE Journals & Conference Proceedings, as well as IEEE Standards, Transactions, Magazines and Letters. This comprises more than 4000 publication titles. Includes 400 e-books from IEEE/Wiley collection.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences. Other titles are in abstracts only. Full text availability is indicated by a green access indicator.

SpringerLink [electronic resource].
Provides online, full-text access to Springer'sand Kluwer's journal titles in science, technology and medicine areas. Some titles are in abstracts only. Full text availability is indicated by a green access indicator (You need to turn it on under Tools > Show Access Indicator after you login ).

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK) [electronic resource].
References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly. Includes: Social Science Citation index: Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981. Also includes Journal Citation Reports.

IOP (Inst. of Physics) Electronic Journals [electronic resource].
Provides access to IOP Select, This Month's Papers and the IOP Journal Archive in full. The Archive is a comprehensive digital collection of all the work published by the Institute between 1876 and 1996 and contains fully searchable PDFs with linked references. Some are in abstracts only.

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E-Books

MyiLibrary [electronic resource].
Provides access to around 150 books in computing / IT areas.

Springer Ebook Collection including Lecture Notes in Computer Science [electronic resource].
A collection of computer science e-books from 2009-2010 including Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS). Accessible via PDF and HTML formats.

IEEE/Wiley e-book collection: Available as part of the IEEExplore Digital Library [electronic resource].
Provides access to around 400 e-books published by IEEE/Wiley in computing area.

Standards and legislation etc.

British Standards Online [electronic resource].
Database contains all current British Standards in full text. EN and ISO standards if adopted by British Standards appear in full text. Please note that British Standards Online is NOT COMPATIBLE with Google Chrome.

IEEE standards: available as part of the IEEExplore Digital Library [electronic resource].

Official documents from the European Union (Europa): legislation, directives etc.

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Product Catalogues

info4education: Engineering (Info 4 Education) [electronic resource].
Comprehensive full text coverage of product catalogues covering general engineering. Updated weekly.

Market and industry reports / Country data

Key Note [electronic resource].
Full text of Key Note market research reports covering over 240 titles in 26 UK market sectors. Market reports focus on a specific market segment, e.g. snack foods ; market reviews look across an entire market sector, e.g.UK phone market.

Mintel [electronic resource].
Full text of several hundred UK market research reports from Mintel marketing intelligence. Covers Market, Finance, Retail and Leisure Intelligence market report journals.

EIU Country Data [electronic resource].
Annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Covers 117 countries, with 270 series starting from 1980.

Global Market Information Database, Euromonitor [electronic resource].
Contains statistical and full text analysis findings under eight headings: Country Data, Consumer Lifestyles, Retail Market Sizes, Forecasts, Brands and Companies, Information Sources, Major Market Profiles and Euromonitor Market Reports.

Online Dictionary

Oxford Reference Online [electronic resource].
All major Oxford University Press reference works, including the Companions series, are searchable individually or across the whole database.

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UK (and LSBU) Theses / Dissertations

Index to Theses [electronic resource].
Covers dissertations accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of UK and Ireland, from 1716 to the present. Gives abstracts of theses published 1970 and onwards.

EThOS [electronic resource] Direct link: http://ethos.bl.uk
Electronic Theses Online Service is British Library's open access to UK theses.

How can I get hold of a theses from another university?

LSBU Theses / dissertations
Some of the dissertations done by LSBU students are sent to us in the Library, and some are kept by the faculties. Those received by us are indexed on the Postgraduate Dissertation Finder. Some of them are available electronically, and some are only available in print which you can read in the library.

UK Newspapers

ProQuest Newspapers: Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

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Finding journal articles

  • To find journal articles or conference proceedings in EE area:

    go to E-resources, and do a keyword search on one of the databases (e.g. IEEExplore)

    Please note that some articles will come in full text (e.g. in pdfs), but some are only available as abstracts. Some journals may also be available in full in one database but are only available as abstracts from another database supplier.

  • To find out if we have the full text of a specific journal article we are interested in:

    we need to do a journal title (e.g. Computer Weekly, Journal of strategic information systems) search in the journals catalogue to see if the journal, the specific volume and issue is available from one of the database hosts. Please note that all IEEE titles are available via IEEExplore.

    If we do not have it, we can get it for you via our Interlibrary Loan Service. Or you may want to visit other libraries which offer you access to their collections (See What if the book/journal is not available in this library below).

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Finding e-books

The library subscribes to around 500 e-books in technology areas from different hosts (see above E-books databases) for students to access. There are three ways to access them:

  1. Search in the library catalogue just as you would for the print version. If an electronic version is available, the book title will be indicated by [electronic resource]. Click on "Access this e-book" in the record to access it with your LSBU username and password.

  2. Search in the E-books catalogue (a sub-set of the library catalogue).

  3. Go directly to individual e-book databases and browse the titles, or search among the contents.

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What if the book/journal is not available in this library?

If the book or the journal article is not available from this library, you can

  1. get it via our Interlibrary loan service, there is a small charge for any successful request for students; or

  2. visit other libraries like The British Library, or the libraries within the M25 network to see if they have the item you are looking for.

    For the British Library, you can apply for a Reader's Card at their admission counter (membership is free) with proofs of address and identity.Please see British Library Helpsheet for more information.

    For other academic libraries, please check on the Sconul Access Scheme website to see if the library is a member institution. A member institution will indicate which band of library users can access their libraries to borrow books.

Band A Staff and research students
Band B Part time, distance learning and placement students (Full time undergraduate students will be given Reference Only access)
Band C Full time taught postgraduate students

Full time undergraduate students will be given Reference Only access to institutions which admit Band B users.

You can then apply for a Sconul Card from us to access those libraries which you want to visit. Membership is free.

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Referencing help

1. Helpsheets:

- Numeric style
- Harvard style

Whatever style you use, please be CONSISTENT.

2. There are referencing tools available to help you manage your references:

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Endnote Web: Available via ISI Web of Knowledge [electronic resource]
Endnote Web is available as part of the ISI Web of Knowledge subscription. Click My Endnote Web on the top after you login.

You can access it directly at http://www.myendnoteweb.com with your username and password after first registration.

Microsoft Word 2007

Microsoft Word 2007 has a bibliography function.

Open a word document:
Go to References > Insert Citations to insert new citations (or references) inside the text.
Go to References > Bibliography > Insert Bibliography to generate the list of references at the end.

Choosing your output style:
You need to choose an output style from References > Styles for your reference list. Harvard Style is not in the standard build of Word but additional styles which are close to LSBU Harvard styles can be imported from the web. There is one source which you may like to consider: http://bibword.codeplex.com/releases/view/15852 *. Please note that there is no exact match of LSBU Harvard style from the imported list. Small manual adjustment is still required.

*To import:
Under Recommended Download on the above webpage, click on styles.zip, I agree, Open, Extract all files then Browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography\Style.
Then click Extract. This will put all the additional styles into the correct folder on the desktop PC. When you open a Word document again, you will find the additional styles listed under References > Styles.

You are welcome to contact me if you need help in this area.

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Finding web resources and selected websites for this area

You may find these subject gateways or directories helpful in finding quality web resources:

TechXtra Scirus
Citeseer Scitopia (also on IEEExplore)
Google Scholar Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
ticTOCs Directory of Open Access Journals

ZETOC (from the British Library)

 Computing Research Repository from ArXiv
 

Professional bodies / organizations:

CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization)

Interfacebus.com

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (The IET)

IEEE

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Maths:

Math Goodies - includes exercises and helpsheets at foundation level

MathsNet.net - includes exercises at foundation level

Theorem of the Day

Math Archives
Site giving links to software, teaching materials, and many mathematical resources, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

London Mathematical Society

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